Vermonters, How About it?
Then we can become the Ununited States, eh Bernie?
it’s kind of embarrassing Trump called the EC a disaster only a few years ago. Thank God for it. The founding fathers were just brilliant about almost everything. If only they had put stronger checks on the Judiciary.
We’ll call it “The Socialist Empire of America”. And we’ll need a socialist emperor, of course.
Just hope Bernie is so pissed he goes 3rd party after the DNC screws him this time...
Got a much better idea, Bernie.
Let’s outlaw and abolish socialism and communism, and remove people who hate the country and pose an obvious threat to the rest of us.
Just sayin’....
It should be the majority of counties, the state goes to the winner.
How many times have Chicago, NYC, and LA had their states go to the Dem, when the rest of the state is red?
sorry, Bernie, but we came too close to getting stuck with HilLIARy in our White House, or didn’t you notice?
it was only the Electoral College that saved us from that terrible fate
NO!
You need two-thirds of the states to change the constitution.
Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming all said no.
That’s more than HALF. The amendment fails.
Now, they can simply ignore the Electoral College (like they ignore huge swaths of the Constitution already) through the stupid winner takes all alliance, but I predict that will lose to a court challenge.
The ultimate goal is to erase all state lines so that small states wont have a say in the leftists plan to centralize power in a federal governance.
Erasing state lines and diluting state’s power would come with a very bloody revolution for which the Marxists would pay dearly.
So do it Bernie!
Start petitions in all states to draw up a new Amendment to the Constitution.
Get 3/4 of the states to approve it within the allotef time frame. Then gin up 2/3 support in Congress to pass the Amendment.
Untill then ... STFU!!!!!!
The Floriduh 2000 recount fiasco was so much fun, let’s have a nationwide recount every four years!
ESAD Bernie. You’re almost there, idiot.
Abolish Burlington College...
I think it would be better to abolish letting foreign nationals vote in our elections. They don’t pay U.S. income tax, they shouldn’t be voting.
Hillary Clinton won the national “popular vote” by 2,868,686.
She won California by 4,269,978. If Trump had narrowed that margin by (off the top of my head) 60%, that would have been enough to tip the national popular vote to him.
Take California votes out of the picture altogether and we have:
Trump 58501018, and an EC win as well
Clinton 57099756
Clinton way overperformed in California to get what she got in the way of electoral votes. But that’s not my problem. No offense to (all) Californians, but do we want the popular vote in California to call the shots in who gets elected president? I don’t. If that’s the way it’s going to be, then why not just let California vote and the rest of us can stay home? That’s pretty much what eliminating the EC does.
In any case, Hillary Clinton didn’t win a majority of the national popular vote, anyway — only 48.2%. More people voted against her than for her. The same thing happened to her husband — twice. But his EC majority (as is provided for in that often-forgotten document called the Constitution) provided legitimacy for his presidencies. I haven’t heard the anti-EC crowd say what they would do when the national popular vote winner doesn’t win over 50%. A runoff? The election cycle is too long anyway, and it seems to me that that would just add chaos.
By making such a statement, he confirms that he no longer represents the state of Vermont....... No true representative of the state of Vermont would advocate for the elimination of the electoral college.
It’s funny, leftists act as though capitalism marginalizes the less successful, but they want a capitalist model as a voting construct, whereby the most “successful” states (NY, CA) are the only voices heard.
OK, Senator Sanders. Introduce a Constitutional Amendment to change how we elect the President. It will have to pass by 2/3 majority in the Senate and 2/3 majority in the House. It will then have to be ratified by 38 state legislatures. Easy Peasy. Of course that means only 13 states can stop this. Hardly seems fair.
Now, there is no Constitutional requirement that the Electoral College vote is “winner take all”. Forty-eight state legislatures have chosen to do it that way. If the EC needs to be tweaked, perhaps Sen. Sanders can urge states to distribute their EC votes as Maine and Nebraska do—i.e. the winner in each Congressional District gets one EC vote and the overall winner of the state, gets 2 EC votes. This would put states like California, New York, Illinois in play as well as states like MO, AL, TX.
Ah, but do you think that California’s legislature about to deprive a Democrat of 55 sure electoral votes? Of course not. None of this nonsense is about ‘fairness’ it is about making sure democrats can never lose.
That is the day CWII will be initiated. I will move my loved ones out of our nation with our family assets.
I will stay and finish the fight or die trying..
We are not a democracy because our forefathers were smart enough to hate inequality and intolerance of mob rule.
There are always questions.
I’m willing to fight and die for my country and constitution to remain as it is now.
Are you willing to die trying to impose a strict democracy onto this nation? If we enter a conflict I will be willing to take your life to prevent your goals from becoming reality.
Strict democracy will never happen by the vote of the people so your only choice will be to accomplish your goal via armed conflict.
You folks maybe need to think about what you are trying to initiate.